Posted on10. May 2022, 23:49
Maria Alyokhina, the leader of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, has left Russia. The activist planned, inter alia, demonstrations for the imprisoned opponent of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, and was sentenced to one year of restriction of liberty.
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Maria Alyokhina has disappeared from Russia.
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She is a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, …
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… who protested against President Vladimir Putin in the church in 2012.
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Maria Alyokhina is no longer in Russia.
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The Pussy Riot activist managed to escape from house arrest.
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Her current whereabouts are not (yet) known.
According to her lawyer, the activist of the punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, despite being under police surveillance, left Russia through an unknown route. Alyokhina is no longer on Russian territory, her lawyer Daniil Berman told her Tuesday night, according to Interfax. According to unconfirmed reports, she was supposed to leave her place of residence in the uniform of a courier. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
Alyokhina has repeatedly come into conflict with the Russian justice system. In connection with calls for a demonstration in favor of the imprisoned opponent of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, she was sentenced to one year in prison in September last year. She was not allowed to leave the apartment at night. Since the beginning of the year, she was arrested several times by the security authorities on various charges.
In 2012, Alyokhina was sentenced to two years in a labor camp together with her colleague Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. She protested against President Vladimir Putin in the church.
(DPA / cube)